The Crime Wave of 1900 and the Killing of “Shorty Jones”
In September 1900, Elizabethville and area was besieged with the worst wave of crime and terror it had experienced to date in its history. The Borough Council took the matter […]
Jennie [Keiper] Deitrich’s 90th Birthday, 1966
At the time of her 90th birthday on 15 February 1966, Jennie [Keiper] Deitrich was interviewed by a local newspaper at her home in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and the […]
The Elizabethville Connection to the Halifax Bank Robbery, 1901
The Elizabethville Echo of Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, did not normally use such large, bold-faced print in its headlines. But the weekly edition of the newspaper was compelled in its […]
Charles J. Price Elected Mine Inspector, 1906
From the Harrisburg Daily Independent, 1 January 1906: MINE INSPECTOR IN OFFICE Charles J. Price Ready for Business Special to the Star-Independent Lykens, Pennsylvania, 1 January 1906 — Charles J. […]
Passenger Railroad Service at Elizabethville, 1904
The passenger railroad schedule for trains arriving and departing at Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, as printed in the Elizabethville Echo, 12 August 1904, was as follows: Six trains stopped at […]
History of the Local Draft Board at Elizabethville, World War I
The following article appeared in the Elizabethville Echo, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 20 March 1919. While it is not really a comprehensive history of the local draft board that was […]
Lykens – Blanning’s Hardware Store, 1922
Blanning’s Hardware Store, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; also Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. CHI NAMEL Nothing so beautifies the house or makes it so “homey” as nice furniture, and nothing […]
Williams Valley Street Railway – New Line, 1894
The following news item described a new street railway to be built from Reiner City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, with possible extension to Elizabethville and Millersburg. […]